Mode of Production: The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory - Paperback

by Henry Heller (Author), Peter Kulchyski (Author)

Mode of Production: The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory re-invigorates the Marxist concept "mode of production" by showing how it continues to have a central place in understanding the broad sweep of human history.

Drawing on recent materialist theory and newer insights from historical and anthropological scholarship, the book discusses the three modes of production that existed, the conflicts between them, the importance of Indigenous struggles to socialism, and explicates a materialist contemporary cultural politics. The authors present pathways for activism and theory through the wide range of contemporary hegemonies and offer crucial resources to inform social justice activism today.

Author Biography

Henry Heller is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. His many publications include The Cold War and The New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (2006) and The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: The Ongoing Debate (2011).

Peter Kulchyski is Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. His publications include Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice (2018), Aboriginal Rights are not Human Rights (2014) and Like the Sound of a Drum (2005).